highlights

First of all thanks for all the good vibes and energy you were sending to the universe wishing my recovery. I was close to die but got lucky, had good angels taking care of me. Went though a hard period but my healing process is going on better and faster then expected.
The short summary: open shinbone fracture, broken fibula (both on left leg), compressed 3 vertebras (stable), bruised many ribs, coccyx, collected a serious concussed my brain in collected a couple of internal injuries. Spent 1 month in 3 hospitals around Switzerland (3 helicopter rides during this time), of which I was sleeping in artificial coma for 2 weeks (to relax and stabilize my body), then another month in a rehabilitation clinic with a full program of intensive therapies: neuropsychology, physiotherapy, ergo and water-therapy, swimming, muscle training, etc...

Hungary is officially acro superpower!
On Sunday at the Ossiachersee in Austria the last solo and synchro tasks of Acro Austria World Cup were completed and with that the 2011 World Cup Tour has ended.
Adding up all the task results of Acroludeniz, Paranoia and Acro Austria competitions, Hungarian pilots became World Cup Champions 2011 in all 3 categories!

With 189 points Pál Takáts won the 2011 season having an enormous advantage of 63 points in front of Argentinian Hernan Pittoco (126 points) and French Tim Alongi (124 points) who just missed to become second with 2 points. Francois Ragolski came fourth and 3-times winner Horacio Llorens fifth. The first women is Grillmayer Alexandra ("Szasza").

In synchro justACRO Team (Pál Takáts, Gábor Kézi) placed first after performing the first ever successful synchro Esfera in competition history.

In the frames of a video shooting, I took Hannes Arch (RedBull Air Race World Champion, and paraglider pioneer) for an Infinity tandem flight. In exchange, Hannes took me for an acro flight with an 'Extra 300', showed me some tumbles in his art, and teached me to some basic maneuvers with the aircraft :-)

Sunday night the Hungarians ruled the podium on the beach of Ölüdeniz!

Pál Takáts won the first World Cup event of the year 15 points ahead of his team partner Gábor Kézi. For the first time in acro competition history in their last two runs they performed Pál's trademark the newest trick called Esfera.The first woman was Alexandra Grillmayer - also from Hungary - with great clearance from the other girls! All three pilots are flying with U-Turn Thriller.

3x continuous Esfera without exiting, burning down almost 1000 meters with this routine!



Glider: 12.5 m2 Thriller from U-Turn

Locaction: Malcesine, Italy. April 2011